Tangible Tech

It's the last day of March, the day before a holiday weekend, and the first weekend of Major League Baseball for 2018. We'll end the week with three stories:

• Drones were used to help 26 smugglers move almost $80 million worth of refurbished iPhones from Hong Kong to Shenzhen
• MyFitnessPal reported a huge data breach affecting 150 million users; if you've ever used MyFitnessPal, change your password immediately
• macOS 10.13.4 brings external GPU support to the Mac platform for the first time, and we tell you which eGPU chassis are approved for use

Today's Apple World Today News Update podcast features stories that will be of interest to people with big forearms, those who keep their iPads plugged in all the time, and potential murderers:

• Apple's coming out with a larger version of the Sport Loop Apple Watch Band, perfect for those with monstrous forearms
• The iOS 11.3 update includes a new feature to help battery health on iPads that are plugged in all the time
• Heart rate data from an Apple Watch is being used as key evidence in an Australian murder trial

Just a few stories for you this afternoon on the Apple World Today News Update podcast:

• A Department of Justice investigation shows that the FBI misled Congress when it said that it had used all possible means to access the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino killers and wanted to force Apple to "open a back door"
• Apple CEO Tim Cook was interviewed by MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Recode's Kara Swisher with topics ranging from education, creativity and technology to the Facebook controversy and freedom of speech

Today's Apple educational event is over, but the impact on school administrator spending habits remains to be seen. Today's Apple World Today News Update podcast discusses:

• The news announced at the event in one very concise statement
• A rumor of a slightly larger Apple Watch screen coming this fall
• App Store and iTunes Store outages have been occurring today, most likely due to the mass downloading of iWork updates
• We correct a statement that many websites are making about iBooks Author and Pages for ebook development

Monday! Hopefully the day we all dread hasn't been too bad for you. We have some interesting news bits for you today:

• Apple is now accepting trade-ins of older Apple Watches
• Watch out, Apple! Google Chromebooks are already eating your lunch in the education market, and now Google and Acer have teamed up for the low-cost Acer Chromebook Tab 10 tablet. Can Apple beat it with a lower-cost iPad expected to be announced tomorrow?
• Use an iPad with a PC? The Microsoft Edge browser now runs on iPad, so you can send web pages from your iPad or iPhone directly to your Windows PC
• Apple's "original content" for streaming TV won't arrive until next March, and they're working on upbeat, optimistic content
• Amazon's Kindle app for iPad now supports Split View and a new continuous scrolling mode

Happy Friday! Today's Apple World Today News Update podcast has stories about happy developers, livestreams that aren't happening next week, possible product announcements in the education space, and using the fingers of dead people to unlock iPhones:

• 5,000 Apple developers are probably dancing in the streets today after finding out that they're going to WWDC 2018. Another 500,000 developers are feeling suicidal after finding out they didn't win the WWDC lottery
• Apple isn't going to livestream next week's education event from Chicago, fortunate as we won't have to see Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel politicizing the event
• A new, low-cost iPad with Apple Pencil support may be revealed at the Chicago event
• Forbes reveals that law enforcement agencies now regularly use the fingers of the recently deceased in an attempt to unlock iPhones with Touch ID

Today's Apple World Today News Update podcast has news on where Apple's future revenue growth will come from, a unique proof-of-concept app that wants to make it easier to assemble IKEA furniture, and a rumor about trial production of this year's iPhones:

• Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty sees Apple's future revenue growth coming not from iPhones, but from services and wearables
• A developer has created a proof-of-concept AR app that could make it easier to understand those sometimes nebulous IKEA furniture assembly instructions
• Rumors! Trial product of this year's three iPhones could start as early as June

A short podcast today, but with a few fun stories about the top grossing app in the US App Store, zombies and the iPhone X, and a unique campaign by a Chinese smartphone manufacturer to get potential iPhone X buyers to wait...

• The top grossing app in the US App Store is...YouTube. Find out how a free app can make so much money
• A game developer is using the iPhone X TrueDepth camera to capture facial animations for an upcoming "The Walking Dead" title
• Huawei's new P20 smartphone arrives in less than a week, and the company is trying to dissuade people from buying the iPhone X until they can try the new phone

We're stirring it up topic-wise on this Tuesday, the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere, with stories about autonomous vehicles, tvOS 11.3, a mock home setting where you can test HomeKit devices, and Apple's plans for even more office space in the South Bay Area:

• Apple has doubled its autonomous car fleet since January; we also look at the cause of Sunday's Uber autonomous car fatality
• Apple has released the sixth -- and probably final -- beta of tvOS 11.3 to developers
• London shoppers can try out a large HomeKit mock home setup at a new store in the Westfield London shopping center
• Think Apple Park and Apple Campus 3 are it for the company's real estate expansion? Just wait -- the company's plans in San Jose, California are unreal

A pair of short -- but fascinating -- stories to start off the week:

• We look at some possibilities on what may be announced at Apple's educational event in Chicago next Tuesday
• Apple Campus 3 (AC3) is about to open, another big Apple building about four miles north of both 1 Infinite Loop and Apple Park